camera16
Alberto Garcìa Alix
Curated by Carlo Madesani
Tuesday 05 June 2012. 6.30 pm
06.06.2012 - 27.07.2012
Monday-Friday 3.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Camera16, via Pisacane 16, Milano
Camera16 Milan (via Pisacane 16) will present the work of one of the most important European contemporary photographer Alberto Garcìa Alix, on show from 6th June to 27th July. Born in Spain, Alberto Garcìa Alix has lived throughout all the Movida Madrilena, the social and art movement born in Madrid at the end of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship and lasted into the 80’s representing the dawn of a new generation, full of energy and freedom. Alberto Garcìa-Alix has been one of the most renowned artists on the international scene since the ‘90s. Awarded with the National Photography Prize in 1999, he exhibited on solo show at Les Rencontres Internationales (Arles,2007), at the Reina Sofia National Museum (Madrid,2008) and at the Moscow House of Photography (Moscow, 2009). The exhibition, curated by Carlo Madesani, shows 15 photos, new for Italy, telling about Alberto’s creative career through intimate flashes of himself, of his friends and acquaintances; the human landscape is interpreted by Garcìa –Alix in a very personal way, always pushing it to the limits of him and of his taking photographs. Alberto produces images of extreme realism, at times very harsh, where harshness is soothed with the elegant use of black and white. The way Alberto uses light and how he re-creates it in his dark room makes his work unique on the scenario of contemporary photography. In the last years the photographer has started a new research in his art. Famous for his portraits, Garcìa-Alix is now about creating his stories with the video: his way of looking at reality running along that he narrates with his photocamera. On the occasion, Camera 16 will show Alberto’s three recent videos De carne y hueso ( 40 min), Lo más cerca que estuve del paraíso (20 min), Un horizonte falso (10 min) with the tango avant-garde music by the Argentinian composer Daniel Melingo
